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and the Melians and Scionaeans restored, while the Athe- nians were driven out, and delivered up the cities. But when he now understood they were in a bad case in the city because of the famine, he sailed to Piraeus, and reduced the city, which was compelled to surrender on what conditions he demanded. One hears it said by Lacedaemonians that Lysander wrote to the Ephors thus : " Athens is taken ; " and that these magistrates wrote back to Lysander, " Taken is enough." But this saying was invented for its neatness' sake ; for the true decree of the magistrates was on this manner : " The govern- ment of the Lacedaemonians has made these orders ; pull down the Piraeus and the long walls ; quit all the towns, and keep to your own land ; if you do these things, you shall have peace, if you wish it, restoring also your exiles. As concerning the number of the ships, whatsoever there be judged necessary to appoint, that do." This scroll of con- ditions the Athenians accepted, Theramenes, son of Hag- non, supporting it. At which time, too, they say that when Cleomenes, one of the young orators, asked him how he durst act and speak contrary to Themistocles, de- livering up the walls to the Lacedaemonians, which he had built against the will of the Lacedaemonians, he said, "0 young man, I do nothing contrary to Themistocles; for he raised these walls for the safety of the citizens, and we pull them down for their safety ; and if walls make a city happy, then Sparta must be the most wretched of all, as it has none." Lysander, as soon as he had taken all the ships except twelve, and the walls of the Athenians, on the sixteenth day of the month Munychion, the same on which they had overcome the barbarians at Salamis, then proceeded to take measures for altering the government. But the Athenians taking that very unwillingly, and resisting, he sent to the people and informed them, that he found that